U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas modified the preliminary injunction she had put in place Feb. 21 and opted to allow four more DOGE staffers permission to access the Bureau of Fiscal Services data. The bureau falls within the Treasury Department and oversees payment processing for federal agencies and manages the public debt.
Vargas had previously ordered the Treasury Department to certify that the DOGE team members had undergone the “proper training” for the sensitive financial data plus explain the vetting, security clearances and mitigation procedures in place to reduce the risk of improper disclosures.
On April 11, the judge granted one member of the Treasury DOGE team — Ryan Wunderly — access, noting that 54 pages of information provided by the Trump administration addressed the plaintiffs’ concerns of “arbitrary and capricious conduct” by the DOGE team.
“In particular, the declarations made clear that Wunderly had been through the same vetting, clearance and training procedures required of all other Treasury employees provided with access to the BFS payment systems,” the judge wrote in Tuesday’s decision, which expanded this access to other staffers: Thomas Krause, Linda Whitridge, Samuel Corcos and Todd Newnam.
